The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announced that Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...

The museum houses its revolving turret, steam engine, and other components. The CSS Neuse is another ironclad you can visit, at to the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Museum in Kinston, North ...

Visit Mississippi's massive Vicksburg National Military Park — it covers more than 1,700 acres just two miles from Vicksburg — to relive a pivotal battle in the Civil War. There's much to see: 1,325 ...

RICHMOND — Sheets of rain pounded the towering glass walls of this city's new American Civil War Museum as workers raced to finish preparations for its May 4 opening. It seemed fitting for the ...

Cashier was not the only woman to hide her identity to join one of the Civil War's belligerents. Historians estimate as few as 400 or as many as 1,000 women hid their gender to fight the war as men.

The city was firmly etched into the nation's history after the Civil War Battle of Vicksburg in 1863. A list of events to celebrate Vicksburg's Bicentennial over the next few days includes a ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A new Civil War Museum is coming to the city of Vicksburg in 2028. Planning and designing are underway for Vicksburg’s newest tourist attraction, an interpretive center. “The ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – History buffs travel from far and wide to visit the Civil War battlefields and buildings in Mississippi that have been turned into historical sites. Mississippi joined ...

Vicksburg National Cemetery was established in 1866 and now holds more than 18,000 graves — veterans from six wars and a few former park employees. More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the ...

The museum is dedicated to the five Iowa brothers who died on a single Navy ship sunk during World War II. “I said that we did not want to upstage them,” Tom told me.

“To me, this document and the museum as a whole serves as a reminder of how far we’ve come as a nation. Despite our current divisions and challenges, more than 150 years after a terrible Civil ...